Mark Thompson, the former chief executive of The New York Times and director-general of the BBC, will be the next leader of CNN, the network announced Wednesday, taking the reins of the renowned ...

CNN boss Mark Thompson swung the ax Wednesday to chop 100 jobs — the first major round of layoffs since he took over the struggling cable channel. Thompson, who has mainly tinkered with the morning ...

At the Warner Bros. Discovery upfront, Thompson said that the service, which he called “the first true news streaming service,” would include live channels and news feeds and exclusive programming and ...

CNN‘s CEO Mark Thompson laid out a strategy for the news organization, focusing on integrating linear TV and digital news units, and boosting its presence and innovation on smart phones and other ...

CNN has a new chief executive to replace the short-tenured Chris Licht, as Warner Bros. Discovery announced Wednesday that former New York Times and BBC boss Mark Thompson will take over as chairman ...

Mark Thompson, the CNN chief executive appointed last year to modernize the news network, unveiled a set of sweeping changes to the iconic outlet Wednesday, announcing plans to build a billion-dollar ...

“If you ask CNN executives about their sense of urgency, they’ll reply: it took ten years for Thompson to enact a digital transformation of the Times, and he’s drawing upon that playbook here.

The service is part of a major push to find paying customers for the network’s journalism. By Benjamin Mullin The network wanted to move Mr. Acosta to the midnight time slot, a backwater in cable ...

Mr. Thompson, who was also the director general of the BBC, stepped down as chief executive of The Times in 2020. By Benjamin Mullin and John Koblin Mark Thompson, a former top executive at The New ...